The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1887-02-12
THE OLD GAME STILL WORKING.
The "Hulless Oats" Men Reaping a Rich
Harvest
Chesterto,on (Kent County, Ne,os.

Chesterto,on (Kent County, Ne,os.
A transaction in coats" in this county last week
smacks so much of swndle that we have taken
the trouble to investigate the matter and give pub
LEFTY to the facts developed in order that other
communities as well as our own may be on their
guard.
Two agents have been for a year or more past
canvassing Kent for the sale of sulky plows, and
have thereby become pretty well acquainted with
the agricultural community. Recently they intro
duced to farmers what was represented to be new
variety of seed oats, called the "Hulless Oats"
Ten dollars per bushet was the price asked for the
same, and to justify the farmer in the purchase
the agents entered into contract with the pur-
chaser to sell for him double the quantity of seed
purchased next fall, at the same price, thereby
giving said purchaser splendid profit upon his
outlay. This contract is as follows-it being
copy held by one of the purchasers in Chestertown
who had secured fifteen bushels of the article and
gave his note for $3.50 therefor:
THE CARROLL co. IMPROVEMENT GRAIN AND SEED co.
Incorporated Under the La,os of Md.
P. HUDDELL, Pres't. c. STEWART, Secretary.
W. A. WAMPLER, Treasurer.
CHEsTERrowN, Jan. 81, 1887.
Hereby agree to sell thirty bushels of Hulless
Dollars per bushe in good notes, less $3.50 per
bushel commission, on or before the 9th of De-
cember, 1887. P. HUDDELL, Pres't.
The gentleman who held this contract showed
US his purchase-the oats already delivered to him
and said he did not see any swindle in the
transaction. The oats are really q fine looking
article, but it remains to be seen whether that
tract is to be fulfilled. Therein lies the open door
for the swindle. If the Carroll County MARY
land) Company is responsible and will make good
their contracts there is swindle in the thing of
course. But is it a responsible concern?
About two hundred bushels of these ualua6le
oats were disposed of in Kent-a great part of
them in Chestertown-and the purchasers in near
ly if not in every case, being our most response
BILE and shrewdest business men. One of our town
moneyed men discounted considerable quantity
of the paper at ten per cent. He OF course knew
nothing Of the oats transaction.
The scheme looks to very much like swim
die perpetrated upon Pennsylvania farmers last
year.
On the same subject the Hagerstown (Md.) News
of last week says "H. C. Caperton, alleged
Bohemian oats operator, was before Justice Btner
on Wednesday, charged with having obtained
from Jacob Thompson, a colored resident of this
place, a note for $3.50 without proper considera
ton, but upon the representation that he would
furnish Thompson Is bushels of oats at $40 per
bushel, and purchase back the products at Sc per
bushel. Carpenter, however, entered into no
written contract for the fullment of his represen
tations, only verbally promising to furnish the
oats The note was a negotiable one and drawn
up by Caperton himself. Some time after he got
possession of the note, Thompson became alarmed
about the matter and went after Caperton, who
surrendered the note having, it is supposed, learn
ed that Thompson was irresponsible, and that the
note was worthless. Caperton was held for a fur
ther hearing on Friday next. He has been hang
ing around Hagcrstown for some time past but
whether he has had any other Bohemian oats
transactions in this locality the officers have been
unable to discover as yet"